SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Temperature Solar Cell Contacts
Award amount
$64,914Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1998Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Applied Sciences Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- KFNNH3CBM7Q9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Inexpensive solar cell contacts can be made using silicone or epoxy materials with carbon nanostructure additives to improve electrical conductivity at high temperature. This overcomes the problems associated with metal-additive silicones and epoxies, which tend to lose their electrical conductivity enhancements as the temperature increases, thereby diminishing; their usefulness as a solar cell electrical conduct. Because highly conductive carbon fib r can be fabricated with an extremely high aspect ratio (L/D > 5000), bonding material incorporating this fiber will have an internal conductive network within it, assuring that electrical contact will be maintained as the material expands thermally.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Ceramic Fabrication with Control of Micrograin Structure via Nano Additives
- Protective Paint for Radar Absorbing Material Maintainability
- Nano Nucleation of Unique Long Range Order Materials via Seed Crystals
- Flexible, lightweight nanocomposites for EMI shielding suppression in automotive applications
- CO2 to Carbon and Water via Plasma Catalysis
Research funding history
128 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2022). Reported award amounts total $29,010,302. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Environmental Protection Agency